In early 2017, a month into Trump’s presidency, the Public Religion Research Institute asked a sample of Americans which religious group they thought faced more discrimination in the United States, Muslims or Christians. The general public was twice as likely to pick Muslims in response; non-religious respondents were three times as likely. Both white Catholics and white mainline Protestants agreed, in overwhelming fashion, that Muslims face more discrimination in the United States than Christians. Only one group of respondents dissented from this view: white evangelicals.
Jeffress was inviting an obvious question: Once a person becomes convinced that they are under siege–that enemies are coming for them and want to destroy their way of life–what is to stop that person from becoming radicalized?
— Tim Alberta, The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory
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